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BASIC PHYSICS OF MAGIC

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Galianda runs on magic. Magic pervades everything - every animal, every person, every scrap of the land, every thunderstorm and heat wave, is at its basic level magical in nature.

What this means is that the root cause of everything is the magical energy in the world. Lightning is not a phenomenon based on electrical attraction, but on mana discharge. Heat waves occur because of buildups of mana below the surface that bubble up and sweep outwards. Gravity exists, presumably, for similar reasons, though the underlying cause of gravity is still firmly in the theoretical side of science.

What is not theoretical is how magic works. Magic seeks a channel. Channeling magic into forms is how you produce effects. These effects are reliable, constant, repeatable, and consistent, regardless of the channel used. Spellcasters learn to channel magic by moving magic through their bodies in order to produce effects. The more complex a spell, the more power and more intricate the channel necessary to produce the effect.

This is also how technology functions. Input MP, output effect. The only difference is that instead of complex spells or “enchantments”, technology is made up of carved magic circuits. Call: CHOCOBO, a common spell pattern in summoning matrixes, can be performed by a human being with the proper training (in this case, the Caller Job), but it’s much more efficient to simply carve it and pump MP into it. This modernization of magic is what’s lead to mass production being possible in the first place.

With the modernization spreading across Galianda, the people are afforded with various accomplishments through the mixture of magic and technology. The more modernized areas have cars, motorcycles, and airships. The people are often with a cellphone of some kind and have computers ranging from large computers to tablets. At most, the technology is within the modern-level, with the addition to the greater technology of airships. The everyday people are afforded the luxury to have magic-powered streetlights and lamps.

Notable Magitechnology

Summon Matrixes: The most common form of transportation, Summon Matrixes are small crystalline objects that use their owner’s Magic stores to conjure and maintain vehicles. Common Summon Matrixes include chocobos, bikes, and cars. Larger, more weaponized summon matrixes require more people, with tanks, jets, or magitech armors requiring small crews (and generally being reserved for military or Guard use). Airships are rarely summon matrixes; the Murasame Zaibatsu Airship Ame-no-Torifune (AKA “ARK”) is an exception. Equally rarely, weapons can occasionally be summon matrixes. Jailbreaking Summon Matrixes for customization is possible, but more complex augmentations than “color” are highly difficult. In general, the more complex the Matrix, the more Magic is required to keep it going.

MogNet: The Internet. The most popular website is, of course, the Moogle search engine.